Folks: To those of you who use and, worse yet, believe in the scientific validity of "outliers," I commend to you the following:
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/335383/title/Beware_the_Long_Tail If you wish to condemn or argue with me about this, PLEASE REPLY PRIVATELY, as this is waaay off topic. And my apologies to all for the distraction, but I hope you will not condemn me too harshly for taking arms against this evil dragon (in joke for those who read the article). Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
